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CQG Provides Desktop Trading Platform for Nasdaq Fixed Income
CQG, a provider of high-performance trading, market data and technical analysis tools, has partnered Nasdaq Fixed Income (NFI) to deliver its web-based CQG Desktop platform as the official front-end for trading NFI US treasury benchmark products. Earlier this year, CQG partnered Nasdaq Futures Exchange (NFE) to provide a CQG Desktop as a front-end trading platform…
QuantHouse Adds Quantitative Brokers’ Algos to API Ecosystem
QuantHouse has added access to Quantitative Brokers’ (QB) best execution algorithms to its qh API Ecosystem. QB provides specialised algorithmic strategies designed to optimise execution and minimise market impact for outright, listed spread and inter-commodity trades across global futures and US cash treasury markets. Alastair Hawker, global head of sales at Quantitative Brokers, comments: “QB’s…
Data Management Practitioners Take Increasingly Dynamic Approach to Regulatory Compliance
Regulatory compliance continues to be a burden for data management practitioners working in capital markets, but approaches are changing as firms move towards managing reference data once for as many regulations as possible, adopt a utility model to ease the burden, or look to regtech solutions to support reporting. The ongoing challenges of compliance were…
Demand Derivatives Partners GMEX to Deliver Innovative Futures Exchange and Clearing House
Demand Derivatives, a creator of novel derivative instruments, and GMEX Group, a provider of exchange and post-trade technology solutions, are partnering to produce a US regulated futures exchange, RealDemand Board of Trade (RealBOT), and clearing house, RealDemand Clearing (RealClear). The partnership includes GMEX taking a minority equity stake in Demand Derivatives. RealBOT and RealClear are…
City Index/Forex.com Operator GAIN Capital Deploys Eventus for Surveillance
By Zoe Schiff, Reporter GAIN Capital Holdings, operator of the Forex.com and City Index online trader services, has deployed the cloud-based version of Eventus Systems’ Validus platform to manage its market surveillance programme for its futures market activities. The FCM’s Compliance and Risk departments and Trade Desk will be using the Validus system for the…
Société Générale Selects Duco Platform as Part of Plan to Reinvent Operations
Société Générale has reach agreement to deploy Duco’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) enterprise reconciliation and control platform as part of its focus on reinventing its operations functions to provide better insights, enhance customer service and improve data governance. Société Générale will use the Duco platform to automate key reconciliation processes across all business areas, dramatically improving efficiency…
MDX Technology Breaks the Market Data Mould with Project IOWA
MDX Technology, a provider of real-time data distribution solutions for the global trading community, has introduced Project IOWA, a data driven ecosystem designed to redefine the way content owners and content subscribers meet and transact business by using flexible, multi-channel subscriptions to data. The aim of the initiative is to liberate content owners and subscribers…
State Street Acquisition of Charles River Offers Clients Front-Office Data Management Solution
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter State Street has completed its acquisition of financial data firm Charles River Systems for $2.6 billion. First announced in July 2018, the deal gives State Street’s clients access to Charles River’s front-office data aggregation and management platform. The bank has appointed John Plansky, formerly global head of State Street Global…
RegTech Summit Calls for Collaboration Between Vendors, Users and Regulators
A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit returned to London last week with an impressive line-up of keynote speakers, lively panel discussions and an innovative regtech showcase featuring four newcomers to the market. The event also hosted numerous sponsors exhibiting leading regtech solutions and was joined by over 200 capital markets participants keen to further their knowledge of,…
Stakeholders Must Work Together to Create a RegTech Ecosystem to Support Innovation
Stephane Malrait, Managing Director of Market Structure and Innovation in Financial Markets at ING, urged the industry to join forces to support growth, development and innovation and overcome the high barriers to adoption for regulatory technology solutions in his keynote speech at the opening of A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit at the Tower Hotel in London…